UC BERKELEY MICROBIAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Fall 2007
WEDNESDAY, 12-1 PM, 101 Barker Hall, except where noted
Sept. 6 (Thursday)
JAMES GREGORY FERRY, Pennsylvania State University
"Acetate-utilizing methanogenic archaea: from H.A. Barker to the present"
338 Koshland Hall
Host: Coates
Sept. 12
DAVID SCHNEIDER, Stanford University
"Defense and endurance of infections in the fruit fly"
Host: Portnoy
Sept. 19
DENISE MONACK, Stanford University
"Francisella tularensis pathogenesis - from bacterial screens to innate immunity"
Host: Portnoy
Sept. 26
BUFORD PRICE, UC Berkeley
"In-situ microbial metabolism in polar ice and its effects on greenhouse records in ice"
Host: Komeili
Oct. 3
BRAD TEBO, Oregon Health Science Center
Title to be announced
Host: Komeili
Oct. 10
4 PM, 100 Genetics and Plant Biology Building (GPBB)
BONNIE BASSLER, Princeton University
Wilson Memorial Lecture
"Tiny conspiracies: cell-to-cell communication in bacteria"
Host: Tijan
Oct. 11 (Thursday)
"Quorom sensing in Vibrio cholerae"
Host: to be announced
Oct. 17
SAMUEL KAPLAN, University of Texas
"Metabolic choices in the life of Rhodobacter sphaeroides"
Host: Niyogi
Oct. 24
GRAHAM HATFULL, University of Pittsburgh
Title to be announced
Host: Sung
Oct. 31
MICHAEL SHAPIRA, UC Berkeley
"Elucidating molecular mechanisms of innate immunity using C. elegans"
Host: Portnoy
Nov. 7
JIM FREDERICKSON, Pacific Northwest National Lab
"Electron transfer at the microbe-mineral interface"
Host: Komeili
Nov. 14
FOREST ROHWER, San Diego State University
"What have we learned from 100+ viral and microbial metagenomes"
Host: Calendar
Nov. 28
RAPHAEL VALDIVIA, Duke University
Title to be announced
Host: Portnoy
Dec. 5
ANNE SUMMERS, University of Georgia
"Sex, drugs, and heavy metal"
Host: Coates
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